Literally, all I can think about is music. I’ve been taken over by it and it’s wonderful. On that front, some of my associates are up to good things:

1. theBrooke released an awesome demo for a song called Wobbly Boat
2. A stream of new/old home videos of Jason Dove playing around acoustically has finally made its way online.
3. Justin Boland of Audible Hype continues his series on “Is Touring Really Necessary in 2008?” (and part 2)

I also have plans to record some location-specific videos of me singin’ & pickin’: under a bridge, in an abandoned box car - and so on and so forth. I’m also trying to figure out a good way to get my songs out there. The thing is, the songs are all in the Public Domain, like everything else on my website. I’ve been trying to write songs that are so simple and straightforward that literally anyone could sing and play them and get something out of it. Nevermind the option of recording your own version… I have this sort of vision of cafes in NYC in the 1960’s, with everybody playing these old traditional folk songs, and covering each other’s material and collaborating. In many ways, it was Ground Zero for a great deal of cultural innovation that came afterwards. So I want to be part of something like that. I can already see the pieces of it taking shape, the invisible outlines forming and flying through the sky like Wonder-Woman’s invisible jet.

One thing I was thinking of was starting some kind of contest, invitation or call for entries of people to cover the songs I’ve been writing. I don’t want anything for them; I just want to celebrate the experiences of an all-too-human life and share it with people. Anybody have ideas? I was thinking ads on Craigslist, along with offering to post your video covers of my songs, along with links to your MySpace, band website, and pumping whatever product or cool offerings you may have. But maybe there’s a way we could expand on that concept and make the act of collaboration more valuable for everybody involved. Gonna keep working on that, but in the meantime, I think I have probably at least two new songs in me today, so I better go tend to that for a while.

*And if you’ve been enjoying my musical excursions and would like to see them continue, please consider dropping some money in my electronic tip-hat on the right hand side of this page. I am one broke-ass son of a bitch, but I’m at least ecstatically happy!